Climate and Ag in the news
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Vegetable and Specialty Crop News posted an interesting story this week about the benefit of growing spinach and other crops in high tunnels in Florida and other areas of the Southeast. The advantage to using high tunnels with hydroponic systems inside instead of open fields is that they are able to reduce the negative impacts…
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The Southeast Regional Climate Center is featured in this story from The Weather Channel on 2016 climate statistics for cities around the US. A number of Southeast cities are included in the list for warmest and driest cities, and Naples FL is listed on the list of coolest (lowest temperature anomaly, not raw temperature) cities.…
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This week’s New Yorker magazine has a fascinating story about farming in urban areas without soil or natural light. The Newark farm in the story, AeroFarms, built a 12-layer crop production building on the grounds of an old steel warehouse and produces a variety of greens that they sell in New York City and elsewhere…
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On Christmas Eve in 1968, the Apollo astronauts photographed the rise of the Earth over the moon in one of the most frequently used photos of all time, accompanied by a reading from the Book of Genesis. Today you can remember that along with more recent photos and videos of Earth rise and set from…
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Vegetable Growers News reported this week that early reports of Florida strawberry production this year look favorable. Wish Farms, a national produce grower and supplier, noted that the cooler temperatures during the planting season has conditioned the strawberry plants to produce more consistent blooms than they experienced last year. You can read more about it…
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This week NOAA released their latest report, the fifth edition of Explaining Extreme Events from a Climate Perspective, which presents 25 peer-reviewed research papers that examine episodes of extreme weather of 2015 over five continents and two oceans. It features the research of 116 scientists from 18 countries analyzing both historical observations and changing trends…
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National Geographic had a recent article describing changes in the way that Egyptian farmers are having to make in their traditional ways of farming to deal with changes in the flow of the Nile, the source of most water for agriculture in the country. The flow of the Nile has changed due to the building…